Hatsune Miku is the rarest kind of pop star. She is enduringly popular in her native country of Japan. She has never been photographed stumbling out of night clubs in the early hours of the morning, and never had issues with drugs or alcohol. She has, in fact, never been seen outside of her concerts at all. This is because Miku is also the fakest kind of pop star. She is a hologram.

More accurately, Hatsune Miku is a digital avatar. Wikipedia describes her as a “singing synthesizer application with a female persona,” created by Crypton Future Media. Using Yamaha’s Vocaloid software, anyone with enough technical know-how can program Miku to perform any song on a computer.

In Japan, where synthetic characters — such as Hello Kitty — are often far more enduring than real celebrities, Miku has been a huge hit. The holographic star has performed multiple sold-out concerts in her home country and abroad. Projected larger than life on a screen, Miku sings and dances according to the direction of programmers who “choreographed” the concert weeks or months in advance.

The stark unreality of Hatsune Miku doesn’t seem to bother her fans at all.

Although otherwise an inoffensive puff piece, CBS’s description of their virtual goddess as “fake” immediately outraged scores of Miku fans:

‘Congrats to the author for doing absolutely no research into the matter other than reading the summary on Wikipedia.

First of all, is Mozart’s music fake because it didn’t feature singing? Miku, and the rest of the voice banks for Vocaloid, are instruments.

Sure, anyone can use Vocaloid, but just like any other instrument, it takes an artist to master it.

Also, “fake” implies that it’s a scam or doesn’t exist. I don’t see anything fake about Vocaloid; it’s simply an instrument. There’s a guitar sitting five feet to my right; are you telling me it’s not there because it has the same implications as Vocaloid?

Finally, every other popstar who’s conditioned for their image rather than voice or talent are just as fake if Miku is fake.

Have fun with your content-free articles and questionable reporters, CBS.’

‘The world is filled with fake celebrities, pretending to be something they are not, remade by image consultants, keeping up appearances with a polished veneer.

Hatsune Miku is none of these things. She is exactly what she appears to be, with no pretence or deception. She is the sum total of the hopes and dreams and creative energy of her legions of adoring fans, and can be nothing else. She is quite possibly the most genuine celebrity to ever grace the earth.’

‘I respectfully ask that you retract that HORRIBLE and MISLEADING title. Hatsune Miku is by no mean FAKE. Calling Hatsune Miku fake is the equivalent of calling ALL of the fan, artists, composers, singers, animators, that celebrate this movement FAKE. It’s an insult.’

‘If anything, it’s more insulting that you didn’t do much research than it is that you said “fake.”‘

‘Well, Great job on doing no research! For one thing, you looked at Wikipedia, and everyone knows that they aren’t completely right. Due to the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia, it comes up with weird BS.

On top of that, this is just a stupid article! Miku isn’t “fake”! On the contrary, she is most very real, and extremely loved. She was voiced by a REAL woman named Saki Fujita!

I do realize that Vocaloids are just programs, and I would be stupid to not know that. She has a character that the fanbase has given her, but now Crypton has taken it on. Hatsune Miku and every other vocaloid, are amazing creations.

[…]

Miku is more real of an idol, then most of us will ever be.’

‘Whoever wrote the article, I would like to politely ask to change the title into something that WOULD NOT annoy/**** off Miku’s fans.

Well, I got pissed off when I saw the title. FAKE is not the word, okay? It’s like you’re breaking her image >:/

Please change the title and everything will be okay.’

‘Note for journalist:

There are a few hot button words and phrases with Miku fandom. One, as you might have guessed, is the word “fake”, or the related phrase “she’s not real.”

Almost as touchy is the phrase “what anime is she from?” or “she’s an anime character.”

Just a suggestion, maybe replace “fakest” (omg that even sounds awkward) with “most unreal.” Unreal is normally used when something is so awesome, reality is incapable of inventing it alone.’

‘When one uses the word “fakest” when reporting in a news article, it leads me to believe their background research goes only as far as it takes to roll an office chair over to a thesaurus.

To address the use of fake in a general sense, we can establish that the adjective form of fake means something which is counterfeit or a sham.

To my knowledge, there is nothing counterfeit about a digital pop star whose image is derived from a vast fan-base.’

‘Hey BAILEY JOHNSON fyi she is CREATED so she is not FAKE and she is way to better than Gaga and Justin Bieber. Your article really sucks. Why this been released through this site? This article is worthless!’

‘This post is very derogatory and unprofessional. What can we expect from Americans. Please inquire more information about this topic even more. Hatsune Miku is a tool to create music, “She” is like every other item is able to create good music and express the creators feelings and music. Therefore its not considered “fake”.’

‘The numerous problems with this article astound me.

First of all, “fakest” is not a word. Dictionaries are fabulous tools that someone needs to introduce this writer to. Also, using “fake” to describe Miku really gives readers the wrong impression. Is it fake when a person devotes their time and effort into putting their feelings into a song?

[…]

Now I am going to assume that CBS was joking when they hired this…sham of a writer. Using Wikipedia as a source? You do realize that students are not even allowed to use Wikipedia in high school because of the unreliability, correct?

[…]

Well, I could go on and on, but I would just be wasting my time. Goodbye CBS, have fun with your shoddy articles and reporters.’

Is it a ‘fake’? Can you call a drum set a ‘fake’? It’s still a round wooden hollow cylinder with a vibrating head attached. As much as I dislike Miku, she is very real.

However, CBS did indeed nail one thing on the head; it is just a hologram; not a living thing. No matter how advanced they become, Vocaloids is just another instrument; similar to a Piano, Guitar and EWI. Nothing more.

You say hatsume Miku is fake? that’s like saying Anime is fake. Sure to a certain extent anime is not real but that doesn’t stop you from buying the DVDs, CDs, merchandise, going to live musicals (if there is one), getting autographs from the voice actors or cosplaying.

Sure we can’t get Miku’s autograph but that doesn’t stop us from supporting and respecting her. Vocaloid is a program that allows anyone to use it’s voice to put their ideas, dreams, and stories to the world. If you have a descent translation of the song “alice” by Furukawa P feat Hatsune Miku you will find there is a deep meaning in the song.

I personally think the best thing of Vocaloids (and not only Miku) is that they are the same for everyone who uses them. The quality of music done with them depends only in talent, experience and effort. Nothing that can really be faked.

This is crazy, pop stars are all fake as fuck they act and pretend a lot to sell an image.
Miku is actually honest, you will never hear about her being involved in some lip sync or photoshop scandal, she never lies in her interviews either, what we get is what she is, she is the most authentic star.

This comment thread is fucking hilarious. Proof that easily angered otaku exist in the West as well. The Sankaku commenters and the Japanese fans alike have literally gotten all bent out of shape over one word. A meaningless fluff piece is suddenly a complete slam against Vocaloid somehow. Holy shit, who gives a FUCK.

She may be artificial andsynthetic but in no way fake.
It real people and love for music behind creating!
Commercial and mass manufactured pop/crap like Gaga/Beyonce/Madonna is more fake to me than Miku, its just some great shit made to bring in money with little place for creativity and emotionnal feelings behind.

Agreed. Well.. the article is poorly researched and kinda half assed too… He didn’t really explained the true essence of VOCALOID. That’s why so many unknowledgeable people misunderstand and started writing nonsense and shallow comments about Miku here.

Question should be: What is a “fake pop star” and does this apply to Miku?

I understand a “fake pop star” as someone who is completely promoted/created by entertainment venture for the purpose of creating revenue, with neither the composing, nor lyrics, nor choreographies, nor costumes nor anything else and thus pretty much any artistic value created by the actual object of the affection of the pop star’s fans. They simply expend money for the company, not the artist. So in that case the star is not a real but a fake artist or more positive: only a performer.

And in that sense I think the title “fakest” pretty much fits Miku very much. With human beings being able to do human things and, in the best case, even being able to overcome the limits of the artificial production industry and become artist in their own way. Miku on the other hand will always be the toy of the companies and producers.

Miku is the embodiment of Millions people having a dream, working hard trying to produce a good Song, but don’t have big sum of money and any artist who are willing sing their song. Miku will gladly sing ANY of your songs… no wonder how good or bad the song is… and just you imagine how happy and proud those people are when their songs, their creations are acknowledged and liked by millions of people all around the globe, even acknowledged by big Companies such as SEGA, TOYOTA, Google, etc. And now even brought Live on Stage and almost always get a SOLD OUT. Are you going to call all of this with a simple word “Fake”??

she exists as a virtual character and synthesiser program. This does not mean she is fake. Too many media people consider anything happening or existing in a realm other than basic reality to be “fake” and it is used to devalue or smear certain things.

Well, this tragicomedy looks like it’s taken care of itself for the most part…

But she’s never been seen outside of her concerts? Oh lawd… Where hasn’t Miku been seen? Certainly not Lawson’s and other parts of Hokkaido, all over NicoNico and Youtube, in various sketches too, in cameo appearances in a whole bunch of things, and even on American Toyota commercials. I think that was the saddest part of the article because… my god… If you’re tapped into 2D otaku culture, Miku seems omnipresent.

Perhaps Americans would rather not have a fake hologram that sings in a squeaky Japanese voice. Fantasy shit like that belongs on a cartoon. Take the cartoon Jem for example, which came out in the 1980’s, way before the troubled minds of Japanese men decided to create this abomination.

No one other than really sick psychos (which are like, .0001% of the fanbase) are that lusty towards Miku. The only instance of that being shown is this really wacky movie (which is of course pure fiction and done for laughs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RUbOxibj8

No 25 something is trying to ass fuck alvin and the chipmunks through the monitor while idol-worshipping them like deluded fools and claiming they are ‘real’. The author just called out this childish delusional crowd on their retarded attitudes and now they are just screaming denial after denial.

Fucking lol! An established and relatively well-regarded news source using Wikipedia as a source. That is seriously laughable. I’m a librarian, and we aren’t allowed to recommend Wikipedia as a source, only as a portal to credible sources via the reference links at the bottom of articles. This “journalist” is a hack and joke.

CBS: Ok we got nothing for this week. what do we do?
CBS intern: what about rustling some japs?
CBS: it wouldnt work.
CBS intern: …..
CBS: …..
CBS intern: …it may work
CBS: ….yeah… it may…yeah…yeah it can work
CBS intern: yes it will

To be fair, the election season just ended and other than rushing out with incomplete info on a now disgraced former 4-star General, CBS decided to run some “article” that would rustle the jimmies of vocaloid fans worldwide.

I’d rather have my child look at the train wreck of pop stars in the US than worship a virtually created image like yourself. I’d be terrified my kids would grow up to be socially inept and pathetic individuals such as you

Denial. Too bad it’s an ugly reality. You can tell by the sheer number of butthurt hologram fans here what I said is true. So lemme get this straight. You’d let your kids watch a hologram created from a computer program that sings in a squeaky Japanese voice??? Hrmmmm…

What rly fake is this news article. Nothing to write about, so started about miku! pff who writed that is the fake. Better start to write about some thing intresting. Miku is made as a hologram you idiot, so what they just did is, fake missed the main point and writed some thing.
The news are just jealouse on Miku. That she as a hologram touched millions of ppl heart whit her singin, but what they could do? noting, then write some booring story and told every one what they think.
Well this shows how much some ppl in the news are dumb that they got jealouse on a holorgram.
Well dont writte some thing stupid about Tupac holorgam concert or reputation will be in danger!(not only reputation) 😀

Too lazy to read all the comments to see if this has already been said, but I don’t see anything wrong with what CBS wrote. They said she is a “fake pop-star” not that the concept or the music produced by Vocaloid is fake. She is a fake pop-star because…she doesn’t actually exist as a human being and doesn’t sing for herself or produce or write or play her own music. Way to go everyone for simply seeing the word fake and Miku in the same sentence and jumping on it like rabid dogs.

Well what do you expect it’s probably just another slow news day. At least Its not another stupid middle east article. But yes I agree he’s a douche bag journalist and we should all spam his twitter feed.

If you choose to yes. Whether or not she would allow it is up to her. Can you do that with this fake ass hologram? Nope. Have fun believing the fake hologram is real. You can paint a picture of this thing on a fucking wall and it’d have the same effect

That “pointless” you are talking is already scored more than Five SOLD OUT concerts, Have her own Game made (Top 5 Bestsellers on top of it), appearing on Famous Brands like: TOYOTA, Google, etc. And recently She even made her debut as Fashion Brand’s Icon with VANQUISH, and soon will have a new concert with Japan’s no.1 Orchestra lead by Isao Tomita, and the tickets already SOLD OUT!!

Japan’s economy is going into recession for the shit-teenth’s time since 1990, their GDP has been barely keeping up with dollar inflation, their national debt is reaching over 200% of GDP, and their political cunts are realizing biting the hand of US may not be so smart with china taking full advantage of japan’s ass in the mean time, and Koreans are just salivating at the idea of the day when they get to turn all japanese women into their personal whores from economic competition.

Of course, Miku is more important than any of the above as far as ‘future of japan’ is concerned.

Looks like the guy didn’t even read the whole Wikipedia entry.
Acording to Wikipedia: “Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress, Saki Fujita.”
So yeah, she’s not fake… She’s just a ‘representation’ of the actress. Not much difference from USA singers, who use autotune.

23:08 13/11/2012: Wrongo. Miku’s existing fanbase is already that – the “guys that created the program”. As shown in Google Chrome’s promotional video with Miku. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt25mv4-2Q
In fact the message at the end says it all:

So go start a fanbase for the guys that created the program, not the fucking hologram it projects. From your reasoning, you should be giving the real credit and worship to the individuals who made the program, not its avatar. That’s like your friend giving credit to the piece of shit you squeezed out into the toilet as opposed to giving the credit to you directly. Miku is a by product of the program

The news piece was meant for people who would not understand the concept of a vocaloid and have no knowledge of anime, j-pop, etc. Getting mad over this article aimed at the masses and not at us is making us look like the ones who are dumb.

Easily, the technology is coming out soon.
Does touching or having conversations with the singers mean anything or fulfill some greater purpose?
It probably does nothing else but trouble the singers at the concerts.
Like in Gintama, Idol otakus insulting anime otakus despite the fact they’re both not going to score with the object of their affections is funny.

The difference is those that chase after an idol, as slim as a chance it might be, have the possibility. There is no chance or possibility with a hologram. You can enjoy the music this program belts out. But for fuck sake, don’t sit there and tell me that shit is not fake

“[b]First of all, is Mozart’s music fake because it didn’t feature singing? Miku, and the rest of the voice banks for Vocaloid, are instruments.[/b]”
*clap clap clap*
I congratulate you as the most retarded comment
Music is not singing, music is melody, Mozart art is melody. Mozart’s music is not even close of being fake just because nobody sang

“[b]Sure, anyone can use Vocaloid, but just like any other instrument, it takes an artist to master it.[/b]”
*clap clap clap*
Congratulations, you just said a guitar is more important than the person who uses it. Plus, Hatsune Miku is no vocaloid, is just a part of the virtual program.

“[b]Also, “fake” implies that it’s a scam or doesn’t exist. I don’t see anything fake about Vocaloid; it’s simply an instrument. There’s a guitar sitting five feet to my right; are you telling me it’s not there because it has the same implications as Vocaloid?[/b]”
*clap clap clap*
Congratulations, you just described the term “fake” as something that doesn’t exist. Miku Hatsune indeed doesn’t exist, it doesn’t have a physical body nor a real personality, just a prescripted “soul” with no chance of improving on its own. Once again, he never said “vocaloid is fake”. He said “Hatsune Miku is fake”. And again, Hatsune Miku is no Vocaloid, so your argument is not valid

Nobody in The Vocaloid fanbase is saying that you moron… we respected the song creator as much as we respect Miku. Why would we respect Miku? Because it’s thanks to Her existence, those creators are able to fullfill their dream and have their works acknowledged worldwide. For this guys, Miku is kinda lika a hero who brought their hidden talent to light, giving them a chance to do so. That Hero might be virtual, but still a Hero.

Saying Miku is Vocaloid is like saying a tree is a guitar, just because is the prime matter of a product doesn’t mean the prime matter IS the product, you idiot
Or are you forgetting Kaito, the Kagamine siblings and Luka? no matter, they are nobody, just the damn main “personas” of the damn program you apparently love so much

Go to the computer software store, ask the clerk: “Excuse me, I want to buy VOCALOID software please”. The clerk will answer “Sure thing sir, which one do you want?”. So dumbass…. How will you answer that question?? Hmmmm..?

Since you’re hanging on words here, acting as a drummer yourself – you should realize the precariousness of your melody statement.

Liebig’s minimum works at the instrument-artist importance front. I can see my favorite musicians operate a slipshod, improvised rig in some instructional vid and hate it, even though the person is the same, and the notes played are the same. After all, there are reasons we didn’t stick to just log drums and reed flutes for thousands of years.

And what is that Miku is then… If you say – coffee – you may refer to the plant, to the bean, or to the drink. Sometimes distinctions are necessary, but most of the time the intended subject is quite evident anyway.

“Fake Pop-star” . . . heh. so the singers like justin beiber has ACTUAL singing talent? And that korean “call me maybe” gangnam style is something better than Miku? HAH! If anything, Miku is the most flexible singer there is. WHY? Her songs can be made by fans therefore she sings for their fans. Unlike “pop-stars” they don’t sell you mediocre singing that was just made better with technology. True she’s made out of technology and further innovated but the songs you make out of your purchase is more rewarding than buying an album that has 5-12 songs worth 639Php – you just got duped. People be jelly since she’s actually better since she doesn’t need to be an attention whores unlike yesterday’s pop-star losing popularity

I really dont see why everyone is so riled up about this article. This is a nice crash course about Hatsune Miku whos taking the world by storm. Remember, Miku is still only a Japanese sensation. Most of the world still dont know who the fuck she is, or what she is. This article introduces her to the people that dont know who she is.

Seems like no one can learn about anything if the result is just getting blasted in the face.

Honestly people… cool it with the passion. Its really turning you people into giant dicks.

It might help if the author didn’t come across as a bigoted asshole.
Getting angry about what you like being trashed is a natural reaction. If people weren’t passionate about anything to begin with, there would be problems.

Coming from a journalistic point of view, he’ll feed off of that hate, and see it as a badge of honour. Rather than hating on his usage of the word “fake” in an otherwise foreign, and journalistic point of view on the virtual phenomenon, we should congratulate him on riling a while community from a lack of “research”.

While he could speak more of the cultural impact, and speak in open ended terms of her existing metaphorically within “her” listeners, he is using shock words to grab you while giving sheer facts of your typical American short-time writer.

Still though, it’s sure interesting to see such an article exist on the topic of our beloved Miku.

I’m pretty sure most people know the writer deliberately chose to write this in a uneducated manner using the journalism techniques anyone learns in a high school English level. But the fact remains that this piece of shit news article will foster more xenophobia in Americans of the Japanese people.
That reason alone is enough for me to want to murder this author so less bigoted dribble reaches the masses.

i wouldn´t be bothered by this if not for the fact that Gorilaz has been doing the same thing for years and nobody had a problem with it. It was just amuzing then, but with Miku, its creepy. Im not a Miku fan per se, but it seems unfair.

@ anon 05:49 and I respect that, but I come from a very religious community and they’re the reason I said those things. they don’t understand anything more like they don’t want too, they hate anything that doesn’t go with the bible (which is alot by the way), and most of them are pretty racist (I’m not racist in any way).

also how can you call someone a satanist just from a comment? that makes you sound ignorant even though I myself was pretty ignorant on my previous comment. sorry for not clarifying things what I meant was religious people (mainly christian since they think everything has something to do with satan, don’t believe me go look up pokemon is evil on youtube and tell me I’m wrong) and stubborn people.

If you go on to read the rest of the article, it goes on to talk about Miku in a rather flattering light.

“In fact, Miku’s entire persona has been created by fans. The character originally started as little more than a corporate mascot in 2007. Crypton Future Media, like many corporations, wanted a face to go with their product — in this case, their newly designed virtual voice program. Japanese graphic designer Kei drew a 16-year-old girl with flowing blue hair named Hatsune Miku — Japanese for “first sound” and “future,” respectively.

With little else to go on, fans of the Vocaloid software made Miku their own, and the digital avatar quickly took off. Crypton Future Media chief executive officer Hiroyuki Itoh estimates that there are 3,000 Hatsune Miku songs on Japanese iTunes and Amazon. This is in addition to the thousands upon thousands of YouTube videos featuring the azure-haired hologram.”

Cutting the article off where it did makes it come across as more negative than if you finish reading the full thing.

Maybe it’s miku fans who doesn’t appreciate music and just watch the videos because of the moe-ness of miku?
I could agree there are tons of creative music from vocaloid, however, that creative music comes from the fans, their creativity and their soul.
Vocaloid is just a blank painting, it’s the fans who paint over it and give it shape, maybe that’s the essence of the fakeness of Miku Hatsune and half of the pop starts, they’re just a product, and the art comes from a different source
The main difference is Miku doesn’t have a heart on her own, nor even a body on her own

But can YOU keep the errant flesh from your corpulent body from striking any object in front of you as you trudge around like the boar you are??? Rihanna was an example. You could ask to shake her hand, slap her in the face if you’d like. The point is flesh and blood you desperate numbnuts. Your precious hologram is just that. A fucking hologram. When you try and argue that a projection of light created by a program is real, it’s like you’re trying to argue Pikachu or fucking Mario is real too. Time to get a real life me thinks

“Japan, where synthetic characters — such as Hello Kitty — are often far more enduring than real celebrities”

Is there supposed to be a problem with this? Fictional characters are no different from a face that was only selected to lip-synch. In fact, I’d say they’re better: instead of feeding societal leeches such as Justin Bieber just by so much as glancing at anything they endorse, I’d much rather prefer to support the creative minds behind a 2D girl like Miku and the songs she sings (well, I guess a lot of money goes towards publishers, who seem to get an extortionate amount of the cut if I understand right, but it’s still preferable). If only most of society could think the same way and NOT get into such a fit every time one of these real “fakest” pop stars whom they stupidly tossed their money at eventually uses said money to fall into drug addiction or some other bullshit scandal.

If I beat her into submission, entertaining the fact I could or would even want to marry Britney, yes there is a possibility. Sorry but no such possibility lies with the fake hologram you all seem to defend so staunchly

Are your odds a real pop star doing those things for you that good anyway? Besides, even if you did marry/live with one, it’s not as if she’ll do any of the things you’ve mentioned. As is often reported here on Sankaku, a lot of Japanese women seem to be content with marrying a rich guy and then lazing around the house (sexless courtships also aren’t unusual, apparently). Now, I don’t mean to generalize women… but I would be willing to generalize pop stars, and needless to say, I would not put such scummy behavior beneath most of them.

Yeah, like Nikki Min** and Lady Ga**! An old hag and a fugly pathetically convincing themselves they’re a beauty! Freedom of Speech and Equal Rights of Humanity Traits didn’t grant an escape from reality; remember that.

Yeah but is it actually the hologram that writes any of the music or actually sits it a recording studio to practice the songs? No. It’s all created by desperate Japanese men and women like you who are embarrassed to show their fugly horse faces on a real stage so they’d rather have a hologram stand in their place. All they do is just feed the information into the computer program. Kind of like how you sit there and feed Hot Pockets down your fat throat.

Right, because Vocaloid music is magicked up out of thin air, its not like there are actual producers that have to work very hard on it, play ‘actual’ instruments, compose actual melodies or anything like that. No work whatsoever!
And its not like any of the artists were discovered through vocaloid and have gone on to make best-selling musical albums both with and without vocaloid voices.
OH WAIT

There’s really nothing more interesting going on in America right now than an almost 6 year old virtual Japanese idol?
How can you even call music fake? I can hear it whenever I listen to her songs, And how can you call her fake? Shes right there.
It’s annoying how some singers will edited there voices, apply so much makeup even there own mother wouldn’t recognize them and act compleatly different to how they would act before [see Lady Gaga] purely to be picked up by media as “something/someone different” is regared as real where Miku was instantly dismissed as “fake”.

Nope, you simply didn’t take the time to learn to use Vocaloid properly. The best producers can conjure miracles with Vocaloid alone (eg Ryo, whose most famous work, “Odds and Ends”, is a masterpiece).

You didn’t learn to use Vocaloid properly. The best Vocaloid producers can make miracles out of it without 3rd party applications (Ryo is one of them. His best work, “Odds and Ends”, is such an example).

I call it tangible reality. I believe most of the masses like to put their stamp of reality on something they’re able to touch. The feel of flesh and warmth. You know like when you jerk yourself off while watching your fat boar of a mom trudge up and down the stairs

I want to point out also that CBS is not just pointing out that Hastune Miku, the persona is fake, but they are heavily implying that the music performances itself and its entertainment quality is fake. It’s the way the article was worded. It’s very poorly written. Fans clearly understand that Hatsune Miku is not a living breathing person nor is she real. She’s an instrument a device of music that performs a realistic form of entertainment. This fans don’t have much of a problem of referring to the Hastune Miku, the icon, the persona as not real and not alive. But when someone refers to the performances, music and entertainment quality and all the meaning and emotion behind that form of entertainment as unreal and fake. Then you’re literally calling what Hastune Miku stands for as fraud. You’re calling the music a fraud. This is how the article comes across. And this is the mindset of fans. This has nothing to do with delusions. Sure people believe that Miku represents what an idol should be but unlike anime fans who believe their anime characters like Azunyan to be living breathing entities, vocaloid fans are more in-tune that Miku and vocaloid is an instrument to bring a form of music that equals the energy and realness of a live performance.

actually most of the music industry is fake
because most artist/musicians don’t even decide there on image,character, music or songs , they just have to do what there music company tells/decides them to do. And because its brought by a human, a lot of people think the artist/musician to be the real deal

if you take this in to consideration and look at hatsune miku. where everyone knows she is virtual and thus knows that everything is decided behind the scenes.
You could even call hatsune miku less fake then most artist

Why do trolls resort to the “fucking a popstar” rant (which is itself a sign of not having a life)? Creativity is the biggest strength Miku fans have, as demonstrated in Google Chrome’s promotional video with Miku:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt25mv4-2Q

It’s CBS. It’s to be expected. They are the far left media. They aren’t a moderate liberal station. They are far leftists. And they are known to be arrogant, rude and very condescending. Most of the news is opinionated and not really based on pure fact.

And why complain on channels. If people are going to complain, send a mail to CBS directly and complain. Maybe get Crypton involved too on defamation of their mascot, Miku. Seriously I hate CBS news. I’ve already sent a letter regarding on how unprofessional this article was.

You do have to wonder whether these “Mainstream” news outlets these days are so short of worthy news to report that they make up such drivel just to direct more traffic, and thus more ad-revenue generating hits by trolling the fans who are sure to respond in the comments.

“Hatsune Miku is none of these things. She is exactly what she appears to be, with no pretence or deception. She is the sum total of the hopes and dreams and creative energy of her legions of adoring fans, and can be nothing else. She is quite possibly the most genuine celebrity to ever grace the earth.”

I can also call pixels and cartoons people fap to ‘sum total of the hopes and dreams’. LOL I can’t believe this kind of disgusting childish comeback rolled out of someone’s mouth. Jap fantasy land sure feeds on its own shit too much.

Hatsune Miku IS the FAKEST, more delusional precisely because she is assigned such idiotic adoration of childish people who cannot face reality or real living people with flaws. They must manufacture their PERFECT little reality that cannot really make them uncomfortable or talks back. These insecure little fools are only chasing after the most cowardly and infantile fantasies and has the delusion to call it ‘sincere’.

Adoration, respect, admiration are all accompanied by disappointment, moments of ugliness, and other unpleasant things. Those who would run to virtual fantasies and pour their energy into worshipping them as replacements for reality without going through the trouble of facing the other side of the coin are not ‘genuine’ or ‘dedicated’. They are emotional and physical cowards who would rather play make believe games then derive true enjoyment from reality.

The level of self-deluding virtual fans in japan is truly astounding and childish. It’s like talking to a five year old with an imaginary friend.

No talking back really necessary here, because, if used reflexively, your post contains what you should make of it. The imperfect all-encompassing reality is that there are people who favor Miku over other matters – you can call it disappointment, a moment of ugliness, or other unpleasant things, but you still should derive true enjoyment from what includes the fact. Do you?

Miku isn’t even a popstar. She is an avatar of a vocal synth software. Therefore this whole thing about her being a “fake” popstar is irrelevant. So your point about Miku being a product of people who “can’t face imperfection or flaws in reality” makes no sense, because you are talking about her as if she was a real life person.

“Adoration, respect, admiration are all accompanied by disappointment, moments of ugliness, and other unpleasant things. Those who would run to virtual fantasies and pour their energy into worshipping them as replacements for reality without going through the trouble of facing the other side of the coin are not ‘genuine’ or ‘dedicated’. They are emotional and physical cowards who would rather play make believe games then derive true enjoyment from reality. ”

Ooooo you sir are truly a higher being. Well you continue to fantasize about Hatsune Miku’s virtual pussy. I guess since I’m not up to your level, I’ll just have to settle for the pussy I am touching right now. You win sir

Sigh, and this why I don’t watch the news on television these days. They always have to use some kind of bias rhetoric on other countries just to make the ignorant masses agrees with it. Namely, old people, people who who are computer/internet illiterate, & idiots who believe anything the news tells them. Curse this unbalanced madame world we live in.

Really get the cobwebs out of your hair, put on your triple xlarge shirt and go outside. Ask random people walking down the street if they know this program that sings and dances. Yes you’re the only one who knows loser

Way to avoid the topic. Did you go out and do what I said? You wrote Canadians know about this shit hologram. No they don’t. And I never insulted Canadians did I? I only insulted your corpulent, diseased self. You go do what I said and let reality hit you right in your triple chinned face. You originally wrote “Canadians know who Miku is”. Your sentence there already priced to be your downfall as you’re basically saying a majority if not all Canadians know what this singing program is. The truth is, only you and the small group of friends on your Pokemon TCG club know what Miku is.

Im assuming your American and standing up for the stupidity of your citizens and CBS when your calling me out on this.

Atleast Canadians are educated about the world and live in harmony with other ethnicities. Meanwhile, typical American rednecks and republicans of the south denounce African Americans and other foreign minorities and threaten to kill whomever disagrees with them.
(Many examples of this, and not all americans are bad, i know.)

I bet you a greater percentage of the population of Canada knows more about miku than the States.

If the guy/girl/dolphen that wrote this one, wished to simply point out how Miku, for a idol that got major fan-base, isn’t a real person, there was a ton of different phrases rather than “fakest”.
No surprises at reaction of fans.

I’m also laughing at example of her never attending night-clubs or doing drugs.
Must be American way for stars to be corrupted when not on scene.

I actually like the first comments about vocaloid being an instrument and all. The CBS person doesn’t even see the difference between “a hologram”, “a voice program” or “a fake”. Which makes him a moron.

Have you ever talked to a girl before? Seriously get up out of your crusty computer chair and go do something with your life, instead of worshipping a made up cyber singer. Americans aren’t the ignorant ones, it’s the Japs. Please embrace reality, not sink deeper and deeper into some fantasy world. Japanese people have no souls

You, sir, just proven to be a gigantic retard who didn’t even read a word of what I wrote. and I DO have a girfriend in real life, unlike you.
I don’t generalize here, but you just prove how stupid you are for spouting such nonsense. I’m not even worshiping anyone, you freak.

Ok. Calm down cherry boy. It’s just an article. The CBS guy has a basic gist of Vocaloid. I don’t see what is wrong with the article since it’s a general description of something the author knows nothing about. Before bitching about an article, take some ESL classes to have better reading comprehension, grow some pubes, and take that dildo out of your ass.

I like Vocaloid, too. But I still don’t see what’s wrong with the article. Just because I don’t fap to Miku doesn’t mean I should nitpick at every single thing an article says. I choose not to deny the truth and not be biased.

Since when was pointing out the fact that Miku isn’t a real person, and hence not a real pop star, considered a “negative light?”
It’s just the truth bro. The fact that you’re bawling over it just shows how fragile your sense of reality is.
Miku is a program. She will never be real, have emotions, or be your waifu. Get the fuck over it.